There are both full-time and adjunct professors who have toiled at ASA for years without a raise, and they are too terrified to ask for one (a common joke in the faculty offices is that professors who speak out either get canned or they end up "in a Brighton Beach basement").
In addition, he toiled at studying for his college entrance exams.
"So many sons and daughters of this country sacrificed their lives," he said, "and one of the fundamental rights they toiled at, died for, was the right to vote".
She and many co-workers toiled at other factories for the minimum wage, currently $147 a month in this country's free-trade zones, where most apparel factories are located.
One of the older artists pulled out a kangaroo vertebra, put it on the table, and said, 'Whoever draws this best gets the job.' It was terrible!" They toiled at their drawings for nine hours.
When I think of how we toiled at Red Herring how for years it seemed quite normal to work 14-hour days six or seven days a week–I wince.
Kanye West grew up with a single mother in urban Chicago, toiled at the mall for years while tirelessly writing beats, and eventually became a superstar, creating some of the decades most loved and iconic albums in the process.
Born into a worker's family, she studied statistics at a vocational school in Nanjing and toiled at a research institute for 15 years.
Raised well-to-do outside Baltimore, Mr. Peres toiled at DNR, Fairchild's tabloid for the men's fashion trade, and Women's Wear Daily before becoming the Paris bureau chief of W in 1998.
Jay Levin, the owner for whom I toiled at LA Weekly before Leonard arrived on the scene, was a sometimes visionary, often difficult guy who gave power with one hand while seizing it back with the other.
